# Monaco's Royal Family

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monacos-royal-family/394339>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 2, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monacos-royal-family/394339 "2007-03-02T19:31:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monacos-royal-family/394339/21 "2007-04-02T06:21:07Z")

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And there’s a note to the Wiki site on [Ernst’s grandfather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Ernst_August_%28II%29_of_Hanover%2C_Duke_of_Brunswick_and_L%C3%BCneburg) suggesting as much:

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> The members of the House of Hanover continue to seek the British sovereign’s approval when they marry, in accordance with the Royal Marriages Act 1772. In 1999, prior to the wedding of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover (b. 1954) to Princess Caroline of Monaco, the couple received an official blessing from the reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

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**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monacos-royal-family/394339/22 "2007-04-02T06:52:03Z")

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[QUOTE=Cunctator]  
And there’s a note to the Wiki site on [Ernst’s grandfather](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Ernst_August_%28II%29_of_Hanover%2C_Duke_of_Brunswick_and_L%C3%BCneburg) suggesting as much:  
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Thanks for that, **Cunctator**. How utterly bizarre. Logical by its own lights, in a way, but bizarre by any other analysis. I don’t have any great knowledge of royal minutiae beyond the bare necessities, but oddities like this have an inexplicably entertaining quality.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monacos-royal-family/394339/23 "2007-04-02T13:21:21Z")

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Merci, **Arnold Winkelried** and **clairobscur**

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